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Title Historical comedy on screen : subverting history with humour / edited by Hannu Salmi.

Publication Info. Bristol : Intellect Books, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (205 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents ch. 1 Introduction : the mad history of the world / Hannu Salmi -- ch. 2 Buster Keaton's comedies of Southern history : Our hospitality and The general / Susan E. Linville -- ch. 3 Comedians and romance : history and humour in Kalabalik / David Ludvigsson -- ch. 4 From ideal husbands to berserk gargoyles : a survey of period comedies representing the British past in the 1950s and 1960s / Harri Kilpi -- ch. 5 Forms of history in Woody Allen / Maurice Yacowar -- ch. 6 No laughing matter? : comedy and the Spanish Civil War in cinema / David Archibald -- ch. 7 A killer joke? : World War II in post-war British television and film comedy / Rami Mähkä -- ch. 8 'Holocaust-nostalgia', humour and irony : the case of Pizza in Auschwitz / Hagai Dagan-- ch. 9 Comedy and counter-history / Marcia Landy.
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Subject Kalabaliken i Bender (SW, Mats Arehn, 1983)
Historical films -- History and criticism.
Historical films.
Comedy -- Historical films.
Comedy.
Comedy -- Motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Historical films.
Motion pictures.
Added Author Salmi, Hannu.
Other Form: Print version: 9781841503677
ISBN 9781841505220 (electronic book)
1841505226 (electronic book)
1841503673
9781841503677
Standard No. 9786613162809